Life Without Back Pain Drugs

Back pain drugs are the most common treatments for all
varieties of back and neck symptoms. If there is pain, drugs are usually
the first choice of patients, as well as the easiest treatment option for
doctors. The pharmaceutical industry has been both a boon and an oppressor
to modern society. While some medicines have been able to cure disease and
prolong life, others have created an army of walking wounded who drag
themselves around, physically and emotionally, counting the hours till their
next drug dosage. When it comes to treating chronic pain of any variety,
drugs rarely provide a solution, but often
become a huge part of the actual problem.

This discussion details the medical industry's terrible
obsession with dangerous back pain drugs and the consequences suffered by
patients with chronic pain.

Varieties of Back Pain Drugs

There are literally hundreds of drugs that are usually
prescribed for back pain. It really does not seem to matter what the diagnosis
is: Where there is pain, there are drugs.

Pharmaceutical products are prescribed to stop inflammation,
control back
muscle spasms, relieve pain, relax the muscles and depress nerve
response. Of course, supplemental drugs are often prescribed to fight the
many symptoms often associated with chronic back pain. Sleep-aids, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs and
even personality-altering substances
are a part of many treatment regimens for chronic physical pain.

Back Pain Drugs Industry

Pain
management drugs are a huge business. In fact, pharmacy is
the largest and most profitable sector of the medical
industry. Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to recommend and prescribe
their products. Doctors also rely on big pharmaceutical companies to fund research projects
and clinical
trials.

Drug companies make billions, doctors make millions and
patients are stuck in an endless cycle of symptomatic
treatment. This ensures that the patient’s pain will continue, so that
justifiable treatment can be given. Typically this means more drugs. Of course,
it also helps that many of these drugs are highly addictive or require other
complementary drugs for their "safe" application.

My Experience with Back Pain Drugs

I have always been a person who does not like to rely on drugs, nor
poison my body, regardless of the circumstances. I rarely even take
something as innocent as an aspirin for a tension headache. During
my 18 years of horrible back pain,
I was prescribed several different drugs to help fight my torturous
symptoms. These drugs included pain relievers, muscle relaxants,
anti-inflammatory medicines and several others. I rarely actually
filled the prescriptions, except in a few times of extreme and
debilitating pain.

I never received real relief from any of these drugs
and always suffered some sort of unpleasant side effects. It really makes me wonder why anyone who uses or abuses drugs would want
to feel like this, as their preferred physical state. I found many of
these medicines made my body weak, my mind dull and caused physical
discomfort of some sort.

Guidance on Using Back Pain Drugs

Be very careful using any type of drug for an extended period of
time. Post-surgical medicines can be an important part of the healing
process, as can drugs for ultra-severe pain. However, you must remember
that these drugs are bad for you and interfere with protective anatomical health mechanisms.

Make sure to discontinue all drug use as quickly as possible and
take the smallest effective dose during use. Many pain killers, in
particular, are highly addictive. I have seen the damage these drugs
can do to a patient’s life, as that person spirals out of control due to
prescription drug dependency.

I know people whose lives have
been ruined, having suffered permanent bodily damage due to their
addiction to prescription drugs. Thankfully, most doctors are becoming more vigilant about
continuing to supply patients with powerful pain pills for long periods
of time. My recommendation is to be self regulating and make it your
priority to reach a state of health ASAP. This can only be
accomplished through increasing your natural constitution, not by
relying on chemical assistance.

Drugs can be a temporary fix, but
they are a poor pseudo-solution for any
chronic pain
syndrome. Want to learn more about the pros and cons of drug therapies? Read The Pharmaceutical Trap, part of the Cure Back Pain Forever Program.

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